This Penstemon is a beautiful perennial that is guaranteed to provide an eye-catching display in your garden! ''Garnet' produces the most gorgeous deep wine-red bell-shaped flowers that are carried on short, upright spikes and are surrounded green foliage. Blooming from July through to September, a perfect summer-long and eye-catching floral displays. A classic cottage garden perennial that is totally winter hardy and easy to grow. It is perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners alike and you're guaranteed masses of spectacular flowers that you can also cut and enjoy in a vase! Superb grown in beds and borders alongside other perennials or among ornamental grasses. Penstemon like well-drained soil and they will form into large clumps over time, rewarding you with even more flowers. Looking after them is easy; deadhead the fading blooms to prolong the display and cover plants with a dry mulch of compost in late autumn to keep roots snug and protected from frost. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant.
One of the most popular roses of all time and for good reason - Queen Elizabeth is a gorgeous variety with large, pink, double blooms that flower continuously all summer long. This tall bush produces clusters beautifully ruffled, fully double, light pink roses that contrast perfectly against the dark green, leathery foliage. Each astonishingly pretty rose is accompanied by a delicate light scent that is sure to delight wherever you plant it. Growing to around 2m tall, it's a very neat, tidy, and impactful Bush rose for its size and will impress everyone who admires it. A traditional favourite that is particularly good as a fragrant, colourful hedge, plus it also carries the accolade of having been voted the World's Favourite Rose. These gorgeous blooms will also make exceptional cut flowers for you to enjoy is a vase arrangement indoors. Supplied as a bare root plant, ready to plant out immediately.
With large, uniquely shaped leaves, Alocasia 'Zebrina' is an evergreen, ornamental houseplant that makes a unique addition to your home. The glossy, green foliage is arrow headed and heart-shaped, and this is an indoor plant that's sure to get a lot of attention. Quick and easy to grow, Zebrina has a distinctive, striped stem with markings that look like a zebra's stripes, hence its name. This unique, one-of-a-kind foliage plant originates from the tropics of Asia, and prefers a shady area so when growing it in your home, give it plenty of light and water but not direct sunlight -position it by a bright window. Not only spectacular to look at, leafy tropical houseplants also provide a beneficial air-cleaning service. In a 20-year study by NASA, it was found that houseplants can actually improve the environment in our homes, clearing the air, removing toxins and adding valuable oxygen to the air that we breathe. Supplied as an established plant in a 17cm nursery pot, Alocasia Zebrina will grow to a height of about 1m.
Achillea always stand out in gardens because of their large, flat-topped flowerheads that look quite unlike anything else, and their finely divided fern-like leaves. It takes its name from Achilles, who in legend is reputed to have used it to heal his soldier's wounds after the siege of Troy, hence its other name 'Soldier's Wound Wart'. 'Paprika' is a fantastic variety with huge, plate-like flowerheads, each one made up of hundreds of individual blooms that are bright red with yellow centres when they first open. As they age, they fade to pale pink and then to a rich, creamy yellow creating a multi-colour effect that's a truly stunning sight. Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators', the summer flowers are a favourite with butterflies and bees. Flowering from May to August, they're a welcome contrast to the more usual rounded or spike shaped flower heads of most perennials and they look incredibly dramatic as cut flowers, lasting well in a vase, and can even be dried. 'Paprika' will grow in sun or partial shade, and any soil is suitable as long as it's well drained. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, and growing to a height of 70cm (2½ft) and width of 50cm (20in).
Astilbes are fascinating plants with flowers completely unlike anything else it the garden. Originating from central America, they thrive is a sheltered, sunny spot. 'Astary Rose' is a smaller variety of Astilbe. This incredibly attractive dwarf perennial grows to just 30cm tall, but what it lacks in size it certainly makes up for with its exceptional flowers. Between June and August the dark green, glossy serrated leaves give rise to a mass of dense triangular panicles of soft pink flowers that look like frothy clouds of candy floss. The flowers are delightfully fragrant and 'Astary Rose' is Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' with the blooms being an irresistible magnet for bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects. The flowers are good for cutting and are certainly an unusual addition to vase arrangements. They dry well too, and provide winter interest if left on the plant, especially when there's a frost. Astilbe prefer dappled shade over full sun although they will tolerate a bright spot. Too much direct sunlight can scorch the leaves. Although not fussy about soil, they do require good drainage so that their fleshy roots don't rot. Great at the front of a flower border, they are an interesting choice as an edging plant. Also ideal in containers, try planting different varieties together for a lovely, light and foamy effect. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant. Reaching a height and spread of 30cm (1ft).
Aquilegia, often called the Columbine or granny's Bonnet is a quintessential favourite in cottage style gardens. They are beautiful perennials with incredibly intricate flowers, rising on long, straight stems above mounds of scalloped grey-green foliage. In this collection: Aquilegia Vulgaris 'Winky Blue White': Each flower has eye-catching purple-blue outer petals and rearward pointing spurs with two-tone blue and white inner petals. Aquilegia Vulgaris 'Winky Red White': With upward facing flowers, they have stunning white tipped, red outer petals and the pointing spurs have two-tone red and white inner petals. Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators', the late spring and early summer flowers are a favourite with butterflies and bees. They are best grown in partial shade and your Aquilegia plants prefer moist but well drained soil. They do well in containers too and make delightful cut flowers, lasting well in a vase. Aquilegia readily self-seed, and you'll notice them popping up all over your garden, increasing your collection, and they're ideal gifts for your gardening friends! Supplied as 2 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting out, growing to a height of 60cm (2ft).
Echinacea, also known as the Coneflower, are hardy perennials that flower at the height of summer and continue until the first autumn frosts. The name refers to the cone-shaped centre of the large, brightly coloured flowers. Not only are they beautifully, they're also one of the best plants you can grow for attracting all manner of wildlife into your garden. 'Papallo Lemon' has classic daisy-like single Echinacea flowers, with vibrant yellow petals packed around a green-yellow central cone from July onwards. Carried on long, straight and sturdy stems, they are wonderful cut flowers and are adored by bees and butterflies and once they fade, birds will feast on the seeds, so try to resist the temptation to deadhead the later season blooms. Popular in cottage garden planting, they're perfectly at home in borders and pots, and look spectacular planted in groups, returning year after year to give you a stunning display. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, reaching a height of 70cm (2½ft) and a spread of 50cm (20in).
Easier to grow than you may think, cannas are one of those exotic beauties that swiftly helps to create a bright, intensely coloured summer garden. With large, banana shaped leaves, their fiery, hot colour combinations will erupt throughout your beds and borders, adding great height and impact too. 'Tropicanna' produces foliage which is striped in a rainbow of colours with greens, purples, oranges, and pinks, creating a dazzling effect that is further enhanced when the orange flowers appear. Renowned for their tall flower spikes and architectural leaves, grow them in large pots, or at the back of hot-themed borders, in hot, sunny spots, in well-drained areas. Feed and water well when in growth - they will not start growing much until May, then they romp away quickly as the summer warms. Cannas will over-winter if they do not get too wet and will benefit from a mulch, or the rhizome can be dug up and stored in a cool, frost-free place over the winter for use again next year. Supplied 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out.
Heleniums are late flowering perennials with spectacular flowers in hot colours. Also known as sneezeweed, they're invaluable for bringing vibrant colour to the garden from mid-summer until the autumn. 'Zorro Bicolor' is a stunning Helenium with toothed leaves and magnificent rich red flowers edged in golden yellow with a chocolate-coloured centre that gradually turns yellow as the flowers age and the stamens appear - a fiery colour combination that's impossible to ignore from July until September! Still in full flower when other garden plants are fading away, plant 'Zorro Bicolor' in beds and borders or in large pots to create vibrant, flaming displays on your patio. Try underplanting it with Crocosmia to really turn up the heat. Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' the flowers are a favourite with butterflies and bees and many other insects. Carried on long, straight and strong stems, they are ideal cut flowers, and there are so many of them that you'll be able to pick them right the way through the flowering season, bringing bold, hot colour into your house. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, reaching a height of 50cm (20in) and spread of 60cm (2ft).
Rose 'Double Delight' is a gorgeous variety of Hybrid Tea rose that is an absolute must have for your rose garden. Fascinatingly beautiful, creamy-white blooms each one with a vividly contrasting red edge are produced in abundance throughout the summer months. Each bloom is totally unique and produces an incredible spicy perfume that will fill your garden. Brilliant for cutting for indoor displays, 'Double Delight' will continuously produce its large, bicolour flowers. Voted Worlds Favourite Rose in 1977 and its little wonder why this unbelievable variety is still as sought after as ever. These gorgeous roses come into bloom during early summer and last through to the autumn, providing your garden with months of delight. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 1m.
Fill your garden with the bright a bold blooms of Rose 'Samba'. A fabulous hybrid tea rose that will not only fill your beds and borders with sensational colour but beautiful fragrance too. Producing eye-catching and large blooms that can measure up to 12cm across, in the most spectacular shades of yellow and pink. Opening up from their buds, the bright yellow blooms have red outer petals the eventually spread down each petal to create an ombre effect with a pink-orange colour. The blooms start early in the season, coming to life in late May and they will continue to flower right into the last warm and sunny days of autumn. An upright and bushy shrub, 'Samba' has gorgeous, dark green, glossy foliage that are the perfect backdrop to its bright blooms. Roses also make the most beautiful cut flowers that you can enjoy inside your home as well as in the garden. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 180cm (5.9ft) and spread of 90cm (2.9ft).
A cottage garden favourite, 'Sweet Memories' is a beautiful dwarf floribunda rose with a compact and bushy growing habit that will become covered in clusters of small, fully double blooms is a delicate shade of soft lemon. In bloom throughout the summer and autumn months, they are perfect contrast to 'Sweet Memories' glossy green foliage. Well suited to growing in pots, although it's perfectly happy in the border, and the dwarf proportions make it ideal as a low, flowering hedge that will look simply stunning when covered in flowers from June. Roses make lovely cut flowers, and because 'Sweet Memories' is a repeat flowering variety you will always have a supply of beautiful blooms to display around your home. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height and spread of 60cm (2ft).
A flamboyant, large-flowered hybrid tea rose with lightly scented blooms, what's not to like? Named after the famous rose grower, this beautiful 'Harry Wheatcroft' rose will make a bright and bold addition to your summer garden. Producing large double blooms, the petals take on a striking red and yellow striped pattern that is the perfect contrast against the glossy, dark-green foliage. These gorgeous blooms appear continuously from June through to September each year. Make a feature of this fabulous rose and grow it centre stage in a large pot on your patio or at the front of your favourite border, where it can be fully admired by everyone that passes it - a real talking point for your garden. It's a great choice for beginner gardeners, 'Harry Wheatcroft' is easy to grow in full sun, and with a classic flower shape, they're ideal to cut and bring inside and display around the home for a touch of luxury. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 100cm (3.28ft) and spread of 75cm (2.46ft).
A charming rose bush that will bring hints of subtle colour and gorgeous fragrance to your garden. Rosa 'Clair Renaissance' or as it is sometime known, 'Liliana' is a simply stunning shrub rose that will fill your garden with an abundance of beautiful flowers throughout the summer and autumn months. Producing large clusters of strongly scented double blooms in a soft peachy-pink that are set perfectly against the glossy green foliage. The sturdy shrub with a neat and bushy growing habit, 'Clair' Renaissance is very easy to grow thanks to its strong robust growth. Perfect for beds and borders and a great choice for novice and experienced gardeners alike. It's equally stunning whether grown in a patio pot or a large container, it really is a rose Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 150cm (4.92ft) and spread of 100cm (3.28ft).
A n incredibly beautiful rose bush that will fill your summer garden with eye-catching blooms all and delightful fragrance all summer long. Rose 'Louise Odier' produces the most beautiful, almost camellia-like blooms in a vibrant shade of bright pink that are shaded with lilac. Each large fully-double rose has layers and layers of petals that create a perfect round flower. In bloom from June right through to November, make sure you plant it somewhere you can enjoy its wonderfully strong fragrance throughout the summer months. A vigorous shrub with a neat and bushy habit, it is a perfect choice for planting in your mixed beds and borders or large containers and patio pots. Very easy to grow and maintain, making it an ideal choice for both new and seasoned gardeners alike. Rose 'Louise Odier' will thrive in most soils and will grow especially well when positioned in full sun. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 150cm (5ft) and spread of 125cm (4ft).
Treat yourself to something truly, breathtakingly beautiful with this 'Sophie Rochas' rose. A floribunda rose, it produces wave upon wave of gorgeous clusters of medium-sized, double, baby pink blooms that contrast effortlessly against the bushy dark-green, glossy foliage. One of the prettiest roses you can grow, each bloom has layers upon layers of pink petals with perfectly ruffled edges. Floribunda Roses produce clusters of flowers, creating a gorgeous effect in your garden which lasts over many seasons. Make sure you plant 'Sophie Rochas' somewhere you can enjoy its lovely light fragrance that will keep going all summer, and well into the short nights of autumn. The good news for new gardeners or those with very little time on their hands, is that as they are generally hardy, more robust and more disease resistant than other rose types, they really are one of the easiest types to grow and perfect for most garden situations, including containers for the more compact types. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 80cm.
Hellebores are perfect for brightening your garden in late winter when other plants are still slumbering, and they make an ideal accompaniment to spring bulbs. A welcome sight, they are a simply stunning winter flowering plant that will give a real woodland feel to your garden during the winter and spring months. In this collection: Hellebore Double Ellen Red - This gorgeous perennial produces the most luscious, reddish-purple blooms that have lovely pale creamy yellow centres that add a much-needed splash of colour to the winter garden. Hellebore Double Ellen White - while most of your plants are still sleeping, Double Ellen White will produce the most immaculate, pure white double flowers that have with pale green-yellow centres add welcome and delicate interest to the winter garden. These hardy perennials will flower from December right through to March filling your winter garden with some much-needed colour, with each flower rising up above the leathery evergreen foliage for a perfect contrast. Each flower produced measures approximately 3-5cm across, and although they may look dainty, they're incredibly tough, whatever the weather! Simple to grow, hellebores will slowly establish into small clumps, thriving in lower light and shady spots. They can be grown in pots too, provided they do not dry out in summer. Supplied as 4 x established plants, 2 of each variety, in 9cm pots, ready for you to plant out.
A beautiful dwarf variety of Shasta daisy, 'Real Neat' speaks for itself with its naturally compact form and dense masses or leaves, stems and flowers. A robust herbaceous perennial, the narrow, deep green, thoothed leaves form a tight clump and from June, straight, erect stems rise bearing large, sumptuous double flowers with the most wonderfully fluted pure white petals arranged around a large, centre of golden yellow stamens. Leucanthemums make first class cut flowers and last well in water, and bees, butterflies and other insects are drawn to the bright, wide open flowers. 'Real Neat' is so easy to grow and undemanding to look after. It's happy in sun or dappled shade growing in moist but well-drained soil and needs nothing more than the regular removal of flowered stems to keep the display continuing into the autumn. An excellent plant for container growing, it's such a naturally tidy plant and will look wonderful on a patio, balcony, or close to a door as a cheerful welcome for visitors. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting and growing to a height of 40cm (16in) and spread of 35cm (14in).
Commonly know as Russian Sage, Perovskia 'Blue Spire' is an upright deciduous shrub with deeply cut grey-green aromatic foliage and striking flower spikes. Named after its sage-like fragrance, the scent is wonderfully fresh, and released when the foliage is brushed past or crushed, so this is a great plant for lining a path. From July until autumn tall silvery spires appear, covered in masses of tiny violet-blue tubular flowers. Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators', they are a favourite with butterflies and bees and other beneficial insects. Perovskia loves to grow in full sun and prefers quite poor, well drained soil that's moderately fertile, so it's well suited to growing in dry gravel gardens and coastal locations, where it will cope well with salty air and drying breezes. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out, reaching a height of 1.2m (4ft) and spread of 1m (3ft).
Echinacea, also known as the Coneflower, are hardy perennials that flower at the height of summer and continue until the first autumn frosts. The name refers to the cone-shaped centre of the large, brightly coloured flowers. Not only are they beautifully, they're also one of the best plants you can grow for attracting all manner of wildlife into your garden. In this collection: Echinacea Hybrida Papallo Lemon - Produces classic daisy-like single Echinacea flowers, with vibrant yellow petals packed around a green-yellow central cone. Echinacea Hybrida 'Papallo Orange' - With its spectacular, daisy-like single flowers with fiery orange, backward swept petals around a darker orange central cone. They are perfect for late season colour and flowering from July until September. Carried on long, straight, and sturdy stems, they are wonderful cut flowers and are adored by bees and butterflies and once they fade, birds will feast on the seeds, so try to resist the temptation to deadhead the later season blooms. Popular in cottage garden planting, they're perfectly at home in borders and pots, and look spectacular planted in groups, returning year after year to give you a stunning display. Supplied as 2 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, reaching a height of 70cm (2½ft) and a spread of 50cm (20in).